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Mamdani hands symbolic 9/11 pen to lawyer who once represented al-Qaeda terrorist
2026-09-06
[NY Post] This POS
Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order recognizing 9/11 Friday — and then gave the symbolic pen to his controversial aide who once represented an al-Qaeda terrorist with links to the attack on the Pentagon.

Administration officials were gathered at City Hall for a pair of executive orders — ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks — one establishing a Day of Remembrance and another beefing up security against future terror threats.

After Mamdani signed the last of the documents, Hizzoner gave Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch the ceremonial pen, and whispered, "Can you pass this?"

Tisch awkwardly handed it to Mamdani’s chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem,
…CUNY law prof, himself once an anti-Israel Paleo student activist at Columbia while on Soros scholarships, he is also part of Mahmoud Khalil‘s 19-member legal team, though it is not nearly as effective as their cumulative credentials suggest…
who just snuck into the press conference, before she hurried out of the Blue Room — the first official to exit the press conference.

"It happened during a ceremony meant to be about the victims, and no one else. 9/11 families didn’t come to City Hall to watch Mamdani spotlight someone whose work intersects with the very ideology that took their loved ones. Commissioner Jessica Tisch was reduced to a prop rather than acknowledging her role as the leader of the NYPD."

Kassem, a lawyer who famously represented al-Qaeda operative Ahmed al-Darbi,
…in 2014 he pled guilty court martial to charges linked to an al-Qaeda attack on the French oil tanker MV Limburg off the coast of Yemen, which killed one civilian and injured several others. Al-Darbi was convicted in 2017, then transferred to Saudi Arabia in 2018. He was only one of those immured in Gitmo that Mr. Kassem defended, including Shaker Aamer, a close associate of Osama bin Laden who fought in the 2001 Battle of Tora Bora and was released by President Obama in 2015…
is seen on video smirking as he receives the symbolic pen.

"It’s bulls—t," slammed Dennis Warchola, whose brother Michael, a firefighter with Ladder 5, was killed in the North Tower.

"How can you defend a guy like that who wants to do Americans or any innocent person harm?"

"It shows exactly where his loyalties truly lie," said Council Member Joann Ariola (R-Queens), who slammed the socialist mayor’s stunt as "breathtakingly tone-deaf and disrespectful."

"The families who lost loved ones on 9/11 have every right to be outraged. On the 25th anniversary, City Hall should be honoring their sacrifice with dignity, not forcing those families to endure yet another insult."



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